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Second Dream
By C. S. Giscombe
I was a woman in a prison camp, my job

was to work in the yard. I walked away,

drifted north, like I do, and came to Canada; but by then I was

a man dressed in a long soviet coat, wool with...
Restless
By Li-Young Lee
I can hear in your voice
you were born in one country
and will die in another, and where you live is where…
Take the I Out
By Sharon Olds
But I love the I, steel I-beam
that my father sold. They poured the pig iron
into the mold, and it fed out slowly,
a bending jelly in the bath, and it hardened,
Bessemer, blister, crucible, alloy, and he
marketed it, and bought bourbon, and...
Honour Killing
By Imtiaz Dharker
At last I’m taking off this coat,
this black coat of a country
that I swore for years was mine,
that I wore more out of habit
than design.
Born...
Lay It Bare
By Anders Carlson-Wee
I know you’re hungry for it.
More money. More news. Desperate

for any laurel that parades you
as happier…
51 ["I don't know what to do"]
By Sappho
Translated By Anne Carson
I don't know what to do two states of mind in me
Probability and Birds
By Russell Atkins
The probability in the yard: 
The rodent keeps the cat close by; 
The cat would sharp at the bird; 
The…
Against Heaven ["I used to pray to a man-faced god"]
By Kemi Alabi
I used to pray to a man-faced god.
Kept his whip beneath my bed.

Set alarms for daybreak lashings.
Pressed white cotton to the flay.

Made flags of the bloodsoak.
Raised them from my window.

Called this worship.
Dreamt heaven a jury small as a county

where nobody...
La hormona de la oscuridad
By Tilsa Otta
Un club nocturno no hace un verano
Mas creo en el perreo
Eterno recreo
En la agitación de la masa crítica…
The Hormone of Darkness
By Tilsa Otta
Translated By Farid Matuk
A nightclub doesn’t make a summer
I believe more in perreo
Play everlasting
In the agitation of a critical…
Deep Water Trawling
By Jorie Graham
The blades like irises turning very fast to see you completely—steel-blue then red where the cut occurs…
Cafe Atlantique
By Joan Kwon Glass
A whiskey truck passes by the window. Its logo says the crown
is yours. The weary woman sitting across…
- Living
- Life Choices
I am trying to carve out a world where people are not the sum total of their disaster
By Remica Bingham-Risher
But for the grace of God
one might begin and
this must be the life of a woman. I will barely touch the…
Cyrus & the Snakes
By Ada Limón
My brother holds a snake by its head. The whole
            length of the snake is the length

of my brother’s body. The snake’s head
            is held safely, securely, as if my brother

is showing him something in the distant high grass.
            I...
Gratitude
By Cornelius Eady
I’m here
to tell you
an old story.
This
Appears to be
my work.
I live
in the world,
Walk
the streets…
[(( How would life feel…]
By Tilsa Otta
Translated By Farid Matuk
(( How would life feel
Not the one that’s personal and non-transferable
But the one that’s nobody’s
The…
[(( Cómo se sentirá la vida]
By Tilsa Otta
(( Cómo se sentirá la vida
No la personal e intransferible
Sino la que no es de nadie
La que es libre
La…
Musing on Lilith Lost to Time
By Maya Marshall
The myth is Grandaddy’s mother
birthed twelve children
by twelve discrete men. I asked what she did for…
The Book of Frank [“this is your”]
By CAConrad
“this is your
captain” Frank says from the cockpit

“all passengers wishing to bail out
any time during our flight

it
is
too
late

I have shredded the parachutes to confetti
in celebration of our arrival”
The Book of Frank [“Frank’s sister grew long blue feathers”]
By CAConrad
Frank’s sister grew long blue feathers

she said it was worse than cutting teeth

she spent a month screaming in the cave
pushing them out

Frank would lie in bed at night
touching his own back

crying

praying it wouldn’t
come to him

but the day his sister flew...

Explore Poems: Life Choices

Second Dream

Restless

Take the I Out

Honour Killing

Lay It Bare

51 ["I don't know what to do"]

Probability and Birds

Against Heaven ["I used to pray to a man-faced god"]

La hormona de la oscuridad

The Hormone of Darkness

Deep Water Trawling

Cafe Atlantique

I am trying to carve out a world where people are not the sum total of their disaster

Cyrus & the Snakes

Gratitude

[(( How would life feel…]

[(( Cómo se sentirá la vida]

Musing on Lilith Lost to Time

The Book of Frank [“this is your”]

The Book of Frank [“Frank’s sister grew long blue feathers”]

p1Lay It Bare

p1Cafe Atlantique

Lay It Bare

Cafe Atlantique